Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23650, Jonathan Gazlay, New York

SERVICE
New York
Hazlai, Jonathan
NUMBER
S NUMBER 23650
CONTENTS

24.321 New York Jonathan Gazlay of Constance , in the State of New York who was a Private in the Corps commanded by Captain Cuyler of the N.Y. Inf. commanded by Col. Heer in the New York line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Nov. 1833 and Leah D. Niles Cincinnati
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 34 $ 166.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 1st March  33.33
$199.99
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by G. C. H. (signature) Clerk Book E Vol. 11 Page 182

28.184
Jonathan Gazlay

State of New York County of Cortland ss. On this twenty third day of August 1833, personally appeared before me, Oliver Vingman, one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Cortland aforesaid, Jonathan Gazlay, a resident of the town of Willet in the said county of Cortland, and State of New York, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 -
That he was born at a place, then called Charlotte Precinct, now the town of Clinton, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, in the year, 1760 -
That he has no record of his age, but thinks there is a record of it in the hands of his sister in the town of Patten in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, in the family bible. That he entered the service of the United States under the following names officers and served as hereinafter stated
That in the spring of the year, 1776, he, then living at said town of Clinton in his father's family, with his father's consent volunteered into the service of his country, and joined Capt. Conklin's Company of Militia, at Poughkeepsie in the Regiment of Col. Freer - Peter Spencer was Lieut. of the Company - He cannot remem- ber the names of any other officer this tour - He cannot remember the month he entered the service - On joining said company and regiment at Poughkeepsie he went therewith to Fishkill & from thence by Peekskill to Croton River, and lay there two months keeping guard - There was no other troops in Company - At the end of two months went to Peekskill and was there dismissed - Was dismissed by the Colonel - no written discharge - The service consisted wholly in keeping guard - He then served as a private - That he again in the month of June or part of July, 1777, volunteered at said Clinton where he resided, in the Company of Capt. Belavan and joined said company

at Poughkeepsie - that he thinks said company joined the Regiment of Col. Sevastout , but is not certain - The regiment left Poughkeepsie and marched by Fish- kill to Beekkill and there joined other troops - He thinks his regiment was attached to Gen. Parsons Brigade - He mentions Gen. Putnam was there and had command - Gen. Varnum was there with his Brigade - He thinks Col. Webb, and Col. Mrown were there in Parsons brigade - The troops lay in this place for some time doing common duty and guarding the country - While the declarant was here, an alarm was made and the troops mostly with Gen. Putnam, left the place and went as he was informed up the north river to watch the move- ments of Sir Henry Clinton who declarant heard was going to the relief of Gen. Burgoyne - At this time the declarant was sick in the barracks - He was carried from the barracks to  Corn Pond , where he lay sick, he believes, three weeks, when he was again removed to the Red Mills, lay there about eight days, when he was again removed back to Corn Pond, and remained there till his mother came from home after him and carried him home, he still being very sick and low; he got thru home after a service in this town of at least four months; he thinks he was absent in said service more than that length of time, but he knows he was more months - The foregoing services were as a private of infantry -
That, at said Clinton where he resided then, he again volunteered in the Spring of 1778, as he believes, and joined the company of Capt. Samuel Smith at Poughkeepsie and went from thence to West Point and joined Col. Herrick's Regiment - Col. Herrick, told me that I should

have the birth and do the duty of Quarter Master of the Regiment - That deponent entered upon said duty, in said regiment, and continued in the same doing duty at West Point for six successive months , when he was dis- missed by the Colonel, as well as the whole Regiment, he believes - He received no written discharge, nor did any of the Regiment to his knowledge - Gen. Glover had chief command he believes during the tour - Roscosko, was there as Engineer - The regiment to which deponent belonged was Militia - Whether there was any other militia regiment at the place he does not know - But a large number of other troops, being continental as he understood to believe - He is not certain but this last tour was in the year 1779 - but thinks it was in 1778 - The next tour he served was in, 1778 as he believes - when he again entered the service at his old resi- dence, Clinton aforesaid - He then again volunteered and entered said service in the Spring of said year, and joined the Company of Capt. Newcomb at Fish- kill, in the Regiment of Col. Frier or Col. Thompson and he is not certain which - The Regiment was some part of the time under different com- manders - The regiment continued at Fishkill about three months doing common duty and guarding the country, when it left there and went to West Point, where he continued with it, for three months more when he was dismissed at West Point and went home - He was in the service this tour for six months as aforesaid - He did the duty of Lieutenant this entire

tour, and a part of the time had the command of the company when Capt. Newcomb was ab- sent. It is so long since said services, that he is in much uncertainty whether this tour of three months at Fishkill and three months at West Point was in 1778 or 1779. He may be in mistake and have put one service for one year, and the other for the other. He served as a faco d , as a lieutenant in one of those years - and the other as a quarter master as above related. He had no commission, as such, in either year - he received from the Colonels a war- rant simply to perform such duty - and such he did -
That in the Spring of the year, 1780, still residing at said Clinton, he again volunteered as a soldier in the company of Capt. Delavan and joined the regiment at Fishkill barracks, under the command of Major Van Denooten of Poughkeepsie, and went from Fishkill to West Point where he served in said company and regiment for two months, when learning his family was sick at home and needed his servi- ces there, he hired a substitute to serve out his term which was for five months, and he, at the time, understood and believed that he served out said term - His disponent on getting said substitute was allowed to go home, Capt. Delavan, then giving him a written discharge, which has been lost or destroyed - That while he was at West Point he was engaged in the ordinary duties of the station, patrolling the place, and its environs, and doing common duties. He was never engaged in any battle while in the service - He recalled Gen. M c Dougall at West Point, and Capt. Ches- man, in addition to others before named - and Major Van at Fishkill being officers at those places while he was there as a faco d -

That by reason of old age and the length of time which has elapsed he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, nor can he recollect the names of officers more particularly now than he has stated. He thinks, if they were named, he could then call them to mind more easily. His services were therefore as a private soldier of infantry in the whole for eight months. And for six months I served as a Lieutenant, under the Warrant of my Colonel, not having a Commission. And for six months I served as a Quarter Master, under a Colonel's Warrant, not having a Commission. All of my said services were done as a Volunteer in the Militia. And for such services I claim a Pension. I do not know whether my said services as a Lieut. & Quarter Master, without a commission, will entitle me to the Rank and pay of such officers. If not, I trust they will be that of a private. I submit it to the Department.
He has no documentary proof whatever of his said services. For the Warrants he received he laid many years ago among old papers as such, and he has not seen them for many years. They are either lost or destroyed. And he never had a written discharge, except the one from Capt. Selaw. He does not now know of any person he can procure by whom he can prove his services. That for many years immediately after the Revolutionary War, he resided in said Clinton, his native town, after which he removed to his present resi-

dence in Willet, Cortland County, State of New York, where he has ever since resided, being for over twenty seven years -
That he is known, and has been, he believes, ever since he has lived in Cortland County, to John Kingman and Reuben Fish, in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity, and their beliefs of his services as a soldier of the revolution. of Willet, say is there any That there is no clergyman in the town, neighborhood, or vicinity, convenient to be called upon, and such has resided in Cincinnati, but a short time, and with whom I have not conversed -
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - That owing to his infirmity of body, he does not feel able to attend the sitting of the court to make this declaration that he resides above twenty miles from the Court House in his county, the roads are quite bad, and he is too old feeble and infirm to attend -
Jonathan Gaylay
Sworn to and subscribed the day 2 and year aforesaid - Before me Oliver Kingman, Judge of Cortland County Courts -
We John Kingman , residing in the town of Cincinnati in the county of Cortland and State of New York, adjoining the town of Willet in said county, and being in the vicinity of the above named Jonathan Gaylay, and Reuben Fish of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Jonathan Gaylay, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and have been well

and intimately acquainted with him for Twenty seven - years past; that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion -
We have often during our acquaintance heard him relate the story of his revolutionary services - we consider his statement entitled to the fullest belief - we think that no one could hear him detail the same without being convinced of the truth thereof - His statement and his case we think entitled to the most favorable con- sideration of the War Department -
Sworn and subscribed the day 3 and year aforesaid, before me Oliver Kingman Judge of Common Pleas County Courts -
John Ringman Reuben Fish
And I, Oliver Kingman, one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Cortland, before whom the foregoing proceedings have been had and taken, do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary sol- dier, and served as he states - And I further certify that it appears to me that John Ringman and Reuben Fish , who have signed the preceding cer- tificate, are residents of the town of Cincinnati in said county of Cortland, and are both well known to me and have been since my infancy, and that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit - I also certify that there is no clergyman in the town of Willet aforesaid; nor in the vicinity or neighborhood

of said Jonathan Gayley, except of very short residence, and perhaps 5 or 6 miles from, and who probably have no acquaintance with him whatever.
I also certify that I have been personally acquainted, and very intimately so, with said Jonathan Gayley, ever since he has resided in the county of Cortland, which is considerably over twenty years, no doubt the number of years that he states. That I have often heard him state over his services in the revolutionary War - That he has long been subject to a certain tremor or trembling, and I have heard him state, many years since, that it was in consequence of his being in the Army, and I have always believed it to have been thus brought on him. I will also state that said Jonathan Gayley, at the organization of this county was appointed its Senior Judge of our Court of Common Pleas, which office he held for many years - This fact is mentioned that the War Department may know, in some measure, that he has been in respectable life and standing. I believe the opinion entirely general, in his neighborhood and vicinity, that he was a soldier of the revolution - I further certify, that said Applicant cannot, with any reasonable convenience, on account of bodily infirmity, attend the sitting of the court.
Oliver Kingsman Judge of Cortland County Courts

State of New York Cortland County Clerks office ss
I Samuel Hotchkiss & Clerk of said County do certify that Oliver Kingman Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date thereof & still is a Judge of Cortland County courts duly commissioned & sworn further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and only believe his name to the purports of the said affidavits and also to his official certificate subscribed to be his own proper handwriting & signature
Witness my hand and seal of office at Cortlandville this 24 th day of August AD 1833
Sam t Hotchkiss D. C. K.

Free
Princeton N.J. Oct 24th 1887
Dear Department
Washington
15. New York Jan 1776 for 12 months. $66 \frac{66}{200} Officer of Pension of Pension of Pension

Hon. L. Cass, Secy of War,
Cincinnati, Oct. 6. N.Y. August 24 th 1833
Dear Sir,
When the enclosed case is acted on Your Dept. will please make return to me.
I am Most Respectfully
Your Ob t Serv t
Barak H. Lewis
ve.

Telephone 1762-38th Street.
STUART C. WADE
GENEALOGIST AND RECORD SEARCHER
Removed to 121 West 90th Street, New York.
[FORMERLY AND FOR SOME TIME LIBRARIAN IN CHARGE, GENEALOGICAL AND LOCAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT, New York Public Library, (Lenox Branch.)]
Removed to 121 West 90th Street, New York.
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THE CORNELL 666 WEST 200th STREET NEW YORK CITY
Removed to 121 West 90th Street, New York.
April 5.1902.
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The Honorable The Commissioner of Pensions.
Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I respectfully beg to apply for such informations as your records of Revolutionary soldiers may shew as to the following persons, who are found with the rank and regt set opposite their names in New York's list of the Revolutionary soldiers, some serving in the Continental line. I am compiling a genealogy of the family for a prominent citizen of Cincinnati and shall be extremely obliged if at your convenience, you can supply me with such information if any as the records of your department shew
Very respectfully yours,
Stuart C. Wade
Revolutionary Soldiers above referred to:-
Note:-The spelling varies, Gazley, Gasley, Gasely, Gaseley, and Gazeley, etc.
James Gazeley, Ensign, 4th. Regt. Col. Tobias Stoutenburg, Mch. 4. 1780.
John Gaseley, 1st Lt. 6th Regt. Oct. 17, 1775.
James Gazeley Private, Col. Van Cortlands, 3rd Westchester Militia.
John Gazlay, Private, Fourth Regt. Dutchess County Militia.
John Gazlay, Jr. Private same regt.
✓ Jonathan Gazlay, Private same regt.
Daniel Gazlay, shot by accident at Poughkeepsie N.Y. 1777.
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Pension Department of Revolutionary Soldiers, Washington, D.C. Gentlemen:-
OCT 18 1898
Will you kindly give me the record of one Jonathan Gazley who was a pensioner up to 1837 then living in Cortland Co. N.Y. I would like to know his age, in what regiment he was in, what State etc. If you give such information I shall be under many obligations for it.
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Resolutions
23 650 INVALID.
File No. 23,650
Jonathan Gaylay Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1821
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 145
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Oct. 27/98 Mrs. S. R. Sanford Seneca Falls. N.
May 9-1902 Stewart C. Wade, N.Y. ds